Bookbinder



(No Model.)

J. B. JOHNSTON.

BOOKBINDER.

No. 511,082. Patented Dec. 19,1893;

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JOHN B. JOHNSTON,

OF MALTA, ILLINOIS.

BOOKBINDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 51 1,082, dated December 19, 1893.

Application filed March 11. 1893.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN B. JOHNSTON, of Malta, in the county of De Kalb and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Bookbinder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in book binders; and the object of my invention is to produce an extremely cheap and simple apparatus which may be easily applied to newspapers, magazines and similar things so as to bind them in book form, which is also adapted to bind covers upon periodicals, and which, while serving its purpose of a binder, is also somewhat ornamental. SiffiTo these ends myinvention consists in certain features of construction and combinations of the same, as will be hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a broken sectional view on the line 11 in Fig. 3, showing one side of the binder. Fig. 2 is a similar section on the line 22 in Fig. 3, and shows the opposite side of the binder. Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 33 in Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a broken perspective view of the binder.

. In binding a number of papers or similar things together, it is customary to use covers 10 for the papers, and my binder is intended to bind the papers together and also fasten the covers to them. The covers 10 may be of any kind whatever, either stiff or flexible, and the binder which unites the covers and papers has two strips 11, one for each coxer, and each strip is adapted to extend the entire length of the cover and has end lugs 12 which are folded over the edge of the cover so as to hold the strip in place. It will be understood that these strips may be applied to either the outside or inside of the cover, although where flexible covers are used, it is better to apply the strips to the exteriors of the covers. If desired, the end lugs may be dispensed with and the strips 11 made shorter than the covers. The strips 11 have their edges 13 preferably turned over, as shown in Serial N0|4651494| (No model.)

Fig. 2, so thatcaps which cover the strips may slide nicely thereon, as hereinafter described. The strips and the covers, as well as the leaves or papers held between the covers, are tied together by a wire 14 which cxtends nearly the entire length of one strip, on the outer side of the strip, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and near the ends of the cover the wire is bent and passed through holes in the strip and through the cover, as shown at 15 in Fig. 3, thence through the leaves and the opposite cover and strip, and is then doubled down fiat upon the second strip, as shown clearly in Figs. 2 and 3. the two parts of the binder together and also holds the papers or leaves firmly in position.

If magazines are to be bound or other leaves which are hard to puncture, the holes for the wire may be made with an awl or similar pointed instrument. The strips 11 are covered on the outside by caps 16 which may be pushed lengthwise upon the strips and which completely cover them, these caps being open at the ends and having their side edges 17 turned under so that they will fit snugly beneath the edges 13 of the strips 11. Each cap 16 may also be applied by placing one edge of it beneath one edge of the strip 11 and then tipping out the opposite edge of the strip and springing the cap over it. The cap may therefore have closed ends. The caps 16 thus serve to cover the raw edges of the binding strips 11, serving also to assist in holding the wire in place and they may be made of polishedor plated metal so as to ornament the covers.

It will be seen from the foregoing descrip tion, that this binder is very simple in construction, that it may be easily applied to papers or similar articles, and that it will hold them very firmly together.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A binder comprising the strips having lugs at each end adapted to clasp a cover, the binding vwire and securing caps all arranged substantially as shown and described.

2. A binder comprising the grooved strips, the binding wires adapted to be passed This binds through the strips, the ends of said wires through the strips and bent down between being turned down into the grooved strips said edges and the cap piece having its edges IO and the cap pieces for holding said ends in turned under, substantially as and for the the grooves, substantially as shown and depurpose described.

5 scribed. JOHN B. JOHNSTON. 3.1m a binder, the combination with the Witnesses: strips having end lugs and upturned edges, GEO. CHAPEL,

of the binding wires adapted to be passed G. BEOKSTROM. 

